…but it’s not. It’s really not.
If only it were.
On August 21, 2017, a total solar eclipse will arrive mid-morning on the coast of Oregon. The moon’s shadow will be about 70 miles wide, and it will race across the country faster than the speed of sound, exiting the eastern seaboard shortly before 3 p.m. local time. It has been dubbed the Great American Eclipse, and along most of its path, there live almost no black people.
Dum Dum DUMMMMMMMMM…
Presumably, this is not explained by the implicit bias of the solar system.
Whew. For a moment there, I thought the “writer” might be deranged.
It is a matter of population density, and more specifically geographic variations in population density by race, for which the sun and the moon cannot be held responsible. Still, an eclipse chaser is always tempted to believe that the skies are relaying a message.
Yeah. We are.
As the “Writer” – one Alice Ristroph, who is apparently a law professor, and no, I don’t believe that’s a real name either – notes, there’s a message. But he got the wrong one.
Not only did the eclipse pass through mostly white country – it passed over relatively few liberals.
It’s a sign.
(Does anyone else remember when the Atlantic wasn’t screamingly stupid?)
She teaches in Brooklyn. Why are we not surprised?
She’s real, and she’s white. I’m guessing she made a visit to Boulder and got some of the good stuff.
https://www.brooklaw.edu/faculty/directory/facultymember/biography?id=alice.ristroph
Living proof of Sowell’s dictum that some ideas are so mind-bogglingly stupid that they can only flourish in elite institutions of higher learning.
Nashville and Charleston were the two largest cities in the eclipse. They have black populations of 27% and 29%, or about double the national average.
so when the eclipse went over places people actually live, a lot of black people were there to witness it.
It strikes me that imaginary racism and eclipses have the same blinding effect if you focus on them for too long.
And 31% of Kansas City, and 50% of St. Louis….but we won’t let actual data get in the way of our demagoguery, or actual geography.